[41483] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Baillie)
Tue Sep 11 09:47:09 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:09:11 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Jake Baillie <jake@marinar.com>
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
Cc: Avi Freedman <freedman@freedman.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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Listening to America Radio (out of DC - only thing we could get), and a
man just called in saying that a plane just landed about 20 ft. from the
Pentagon. Be careful if you are in a federal building today.
Jake Baillie
Personal Capacity
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Avi Freedman wrote:
>
> > FYI, 2 planes crashed into the world trade center.
> > Sounds like on purpose.
>
> > Not to be ghoulish, but the traffic impact is looking to be fairly large
> > on the 'net (and on the PSTN in the NYC area).
>
> Just to add a few points:
>
> All VHF TV stations except for CBS 2 are off the air, many radio stations
> are off the air, and it's largely impossible to get a call in. All
> bridges and tunnels are closed (which I assume includes the PATH).
>
> A horrible thing to wake up to... could see the smoke out my bedroom
> window...
>
> C
>
> > FYI,
> >
> > Avi
> >
>
